Island Quotes

I never watched 'Harper's Island.'

Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch, French or Spanish, whether we are independent or not, and whether we be island or continental territories.

The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island.

Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island.

Gleason used to rack balls for me when he was a kid in Brooklyn and in Long Island.

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.

I felt alone out there, like I was on a desert island. I felt like Gilligan.

I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.

And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained.

I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England is an island, there's a lot of salt in the air and in the water. I think that has something to do with it.

This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did... used to come to my parents' house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He was at the University of Rhode Island. And I was four, four years old, at the time, and so I actually don't have any memories of this gentleman.

In my district, the budget scales back and eliminates several long-term shore protection projects important to the safety and economic security of Long Island.

The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper's landing, opposite another island.